Perspective on Contemporary AI

[eighthobstruction]

Besides being being wonderfully very useful to modeling programmes for Medecine and Engineering AI has a darker side as you know....here is how US govt is planning to use it....

On Sunday night, House Republicans added (Ed: smuggled at last moment so congress could not fully read the caveats) language to the Budget Reconciliation bill (the Big Beautiful Bill) that would block all state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years, 404 Media reports. The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

from ARS Technica :"GOP sneaks decade long AI regulation ban into spending bill"....
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[eighthobstruction]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5gyhQ1JLnU&t=55s

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJeFoEw9x0M&t=16s

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSjfW54v7-M&t=47s

[Serial_Apologist]

Goes along with an idea I have that when the robots are allowed to take us over the so-called world leaders will *automatically* be absolved of all responsibility for the consequences.

[smittims]

I've had a long tussle with one of my energy providers caused, I'm sure,by their reliance on AI raher than human input. It's frustrating and time-wasting to try to put one's reasoned argument to them knowing that it will be read and replied to by an unreasoning and unethical robot.

[eighthobstruction]

If it was neccessary to boil humans in a cauldron - would they still do it. Such as Ayn Rand gave us novels about the type of meglomanic people we have in seeming abundance now. Herewith, a brief newscast that is full of interesting info. Ref especially....the amount of electical energy and fresh clean water is needed to enable AI....and more surprising the human cost / and assault on mental health of low paid workers in the 3rd world used for sifting and filtering data....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzW3o8zFEc

[Serial_Apologist]

If it was neccessary to boil humans in a cauldron - would they still do it. Such as Ayn Rand gave us novels about the type of meglomanic people we have in seeming abundance now. Herewith, a brief newscast that is full of interesting info. Ref especially....the amount of electical energy and fresh clean water is needed to enable AI....and more surprising the human cost / and assault on mental health of low paid workers in the 3rd world used for sifting and filtering data....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzW3o8zFEc

Backs up what I was hinting a in #5 - Trump's deregulating of AI counter-checks hastening the ineluctable end of humanity because his friends in the military, in the US, Kremlin, wherever they may be - obviously don't give a fig about any consequences, be they human fatalities, infrastructures or clean water ("wahdurr") in this instance, arising from AI systems firing off missiles, because they won't be around to see them happening. it's the old story of cybernetic overload, isn't it? - of systems that need systems that in turn need further systems to overlook them until initial causes and reasons are lost sight of... so why don't we just get rid of the whole second, third and so on lines of control and wheeeey, like the mad colonel riding on the released H-bomb right at the end of Dr Strangelove, let's just literally go with the flow, man!!!

(I seem to be getting a déja vu on this from somewhere...)

[Forget It (U2079353)]

One man (Bruce Schneier) spoke truth to power on Thursday at
the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled
“The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”

The known dangers of data in the hands of our adversaries

Americans may disagree about who counts as an adversary, but everyone agrees we have them.
And the more powerful someone is -- whether they be an individual, a corporation, or the
government itself -- the more powerful the adversaries they attract.
We already know that America’s geopolitical adversaries are attempting to access the
consolidated DOGE data. When DOGE staff gained access to sensitive NLRB data, a user with a
Russian IP address immediately tried to log in with the staffers’ (correct) usernames and
passwords [6]. These efforts happened “in near real-time”, with no lag between issuing log-in
credentials and the log-in attempts. While these specific log-in attempts were blocked, they are
likely the tip of a much larger iceberg.

His full written testimony as a pdf is here: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-conte...-Testimony.pdf